The Miraculous Draught of Fishes
detail from St Simon, St Peter, St Jude and Scenes from the New Testament

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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1874

Three-light window with standing figures with panels below depicting the miraculous draught of fish, Christ walking on the water and St Paul's shipwreck.


firm/studio: Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
designer: William Morris
designer: Edward Coley Burne-Jones
designer: Ford Madox Brown

Llandaff Cathedral, Llandaff, Cardiff
north wall of the north aisle

Designs by Ford Madox Brown were used for all three of the scenes below as well as St Simon and St Jude, while Edward Burne-Jones designed the central figure of St Peter. Angels in the tracery by William Morris.


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Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 11-01-2012

 

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• Christ saves Peter from drowning  [Matthew 14:28-31]
• St Jude Thaddaeus, apostle 
• St Peter, apostle and first bishop of Rome 
• St Simon Zelotes (or Simon the Canaanite), apostle 
• the miraculous draught of fishes (before the Resurrection) on the Lake of Gennesaret (Sea of Galilee); James and John helping to bring in the nets  [Luke 5:1-11]
• the shipwreck on the coast of Malta (Melita) - Paul's journey to Rome  [Acts 27:14-44]

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• angels 
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• landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) 

Nevil A. James, The Stained Glass of Llandaff Cathedral (Llandaff: Llandaff Cathedral Shop Committee, 1997), p. 7.

William Waters, Saints and Symbols: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass (Abbots Morton: Seraphim, 2021), pp. 76–9.

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 121.

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 253.

Painton Cowen, A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), p. 224.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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